The Way To Heaven Is

The Surest Way To Know Our Gold, Is To Look Upon It And Examine It In God's Furnace, Where He Tries It That We May See What It Is. If We Have A Mind To Know Whether A Building Stands Strong Or Not, We Must Look Upon It When The Wind Blows. If We Would Know Whether A Staff Be Strong, Or A Rotten, Broken Reed, We Must Observe It When It Is Leaned On And Weight Is Borne Upon It. If We Would Weigh Ourselves Justly We Must Weigh Ourselves In God's Scales That He Makes Use Of To Weigh Us.

Resolved, To Examine Carefully, And Constantly, What That One Thing In Me Is, Which Causes Me In The Least To Doubt The Love Of God; And To Direct All My Forces Against It.

The Way To Heaven Is Ascending; We Must Be Content To Travel Uphill, Though It Be Hard And Tiresome, And Contrary To The Natural Bias Of Our Flesh.

How Can You Expect To Dwell With God Forever, If You So Neglect And Forsake Him Here?

All The Fruits Of The Spirit Which We Are To Lay Weight Upon As Evidential Of Grace, Are Summed Up In Charity, Or Christian Love; Because This Is The Sum Of All Grace. And The Only Way, Therefore, In Which Any Can Know Their Good Estate, Is By Discerning The Exercises Of This Divine Charity In Their Hearts; For Without Charity, Let Men Have What Gifts You Please, They Are Nothing.